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You Won’t Be Able to Disable (or Delay) Windows Updates on Windows 10 Home

5 points by denzil_correa 11y ago

SQL2219 11y ago
I wonder what this means for Windows Restore feature?
J_Darnley 11y ago
What the ...? So in the middle of working you won't even get the crappy message that 7 has saying "Windows needs to restart to apply updates, choose how long before we bug you again. 10 min, 1 hour, 4 hours" It will just restart right then?
- jmkni 11y ago
  What 8.1 does currently is says, "Windows is restarting in 1 day", then 1 day later if you haven't restarted (for a lot of people, that's plausible) it restarts for you, regardless if what you're doing. There is a way to stop it, but you need to literally kill the Windows service, which is annoying. And that's on Enterprise.
JoeAltmaier 11y ago
My favorite: at the airport waiting, call my flight, so I hit the power button on the laptop. It informs me "Do not power down, I'm installing endless updates! No telling how long it'll take!" You close the lid anyway because you have too, pack it away and when you get there find the battery dead. Windows Update is a complete cluster.
vezycash 11y ago
If this is true, I predict Microsoft will backtrack because of the ensuing backlash. No every country has cheap, fast internet without bandwidth limits. I will be very angry if Windows 10 zaps my expensive & limited bandwidth with no way to turn it off. Auto updating chrome is entirely different because its just a few MBs. Let's even assume I can get fast, free internet somewhere. How would the OS determine when I'm on a bandwidth limited network and when I'm not? Windows 8 had a feature to mark certain networks as limited. But their implementation was a complete joke. It required modem manufacturers to rewrite their drivers and this surely would not happen. Windows 10 was looking great till now. I use two Windows phones and have always thought of how better their browsing experience would be if Microsoft's engineers left their Seattle castles for a few months to undeveloped places like Monrovia, Bangladesh, Ghana... If they did, they wouldn't make moronic decisions like blocking app sharing on WP. They may not know it but that singular decision effectively botched their chances of gaining high market shares in undeveloped markets. I can't count how many times I've heard, "But it can't collect apps from other phones right?" People would marvel at my phones but... Windows 10 supposedly would fix the aforementioned issue. Yet, they would benefit from living with their non-USA customers. The company is too USA-centric for the own good.

5 points by denzil_correa 11y ago

I wonder what this means for Windows Restore feature?

What the ...? So in the middle of working you won't even get the crappy message that 7 has saying "Windows needs to restart to apply updates, choose how long before we bug you again. 10 min, 1 hour, 4 hours" It will just restart right then?

jmkni 11y ago
What 8.1 does currently is says, "Windows is restarting in 1 day", then 1 day later if you haven't restarted (for a lot of people, that's plausible) it restarts for you, regardless if what you're doing. There is a way to stop it, but you need to literally kill the Windows service, which is annoying. And that's on Enterprise.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago

My favorite: at the airport waiting, call my flight, so I hit the power button on the laptop. It informs me "Do not power down, I'm installing endless updates! No telling how long it'll take!" You close the lid anyway because you have too, pack it away and when you get there find the battery dead. Windows Update is a complete cluster.

vezycash 11y ago

If this is true, I predict Microsoft will backtrack because of the ensuing backlash. No every country has cheap, fast internet without bandwidth limits. I will be very angry if Windows 10 zaps my expensive & limited bandwidth with no way to turn it off. Auto updating chrome is entirely different because its just a few MBs. Let's even assume I can get fast, free internet somewhere. How would the OS determine when I'm on a bandwidth limited network and when I'm not? Windows 8 had a feature to mark certain networks as limited. But their implementation was a complete joke. It required modem manufacturers to rewrite their drivers and this surely would not happen. Windows 10 was looking great till now. I use two Windows phones and have always thought of how better their browsing experience would be if Microsoft's engineers left their Seattle castles for a few months to undeveloped places like Monrovia, Bangladesh, Ghana... If they did, they wouldn't make moronic decisions like blocking app sharing on WP. They may not know it but that singular decision effectively botched their chances of gaining high market shares in undeveloped markets. I can't count how many times I've heard, "But it can't collect apps from other phones right?" People would marvel at my phones but... Windows 10 supposedly would fix the aforementioned issue. Yet, they would benefit from living with their non-USA customers. The company is too USA-centric for the own good.